# ét
## Danish
### Alternative forms

* et

### Numeral

ét
* neuter singular of en

### Pronoun

ét
* neuter singular of en

#### Usage notes

Accent is optional, and reflects intonation. Compare, for example, hun har kun et bord "she only has a table" with hun har kun ét bord "she has only one table".

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the original e- stem of eszik (“to eat”) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈeːt]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eːt

### Noun

ét (plural étek)
* (obsolete) food
    Synonyms: étel, élelem
* (obsolete) eating
    Synonyms: evés, étkezés
* (archaic, regional) appetite
    Synonym: étvágy

#### Usage notes

Today it is used only in compounds and idioms. In the early 20th century it was also applied in regionalism with the similarly obsolete term it (“drink[ing]”).

#### Derived terms

* étkezik → étkezés
* étlen-szomjan
* étcsokoládé
* étkészlet
* étlap
* étolaj
* étterem
* étvágy

### Further reading

* ét in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (“A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.
* ét in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [eːd]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *yantus, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-. Cognates include Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos) and Sanskrit यत्न (yatna, “zeal”)), यस्यति (yasyati, “strive for”).

#### Noun

ét m (genitive éuit)
* jealousy; envy, emulation
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5$^b$20
    trisin intamail sin .i. combad ǽt leu buid domsa i n-iriss et duús in intamlitisthrough that imitation, i.e. so that there may be jealousy with them for me to be in faith and if by chance they might imitate [me]
* enthusiasm, zeal

##### Inflection

Masculine o-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | ét | — | — |
| Vocative | éuit | — | — |
| Accusative | ét$^N$ | — | — |
| Genitive | éuit$^L$ | — | — |
| Dative | éut$^L$ | — | — |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

##### Alternative forms

* ǽt

##### Derived terms

* étach
* étaigidir

##### Descendants

* Irish: éad
* Manx: ead
* Scottish Gaelic: eud

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *intā, containing the prefix in-.

#### Noun

ét f
* verbal noun of ad·cota

##### Inflection

Feminine ā-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | ét$^L$ | — | — |
| Vocative | ét$^L$ | — | — |
| Accusative | éit$^N$ | — | — |
| Genitive | éite$^H$ | — | — |
| Dative | éit$^L$ | — | — |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ét ‘jealousy’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ét (verbal noun)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Compare ít, which is likely its variant.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ʔɛt̚˧˦]
* (Huế) IPA: [ʔɛt̚˦˧˥]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ʔɛk̚˦˥]

### Adjective

ét
* (only in compounds) very few, very little

### Anagrams

* té